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Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain by Imogen Tyler 9781848138513
RRP: £24.95£24.06Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilizes a number... -
Children's Rights: A Commentary on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Protocols by Wouter Vandenhole 9781800888371
RRP: £54.95£50.05This comprehensive Commentary presents a contemporary legal perspective on the inherently interdisciplinary field of children's rights. Chapters analyse each article of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, along with its Optional Protocols,... -
Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work by Laura Robson 9781804290217
RRP: £25.00£21.34Historian Laura Robson unveils the dark heart of our purportedly humanitarian international regime. Tracing the century-long history of attempts to remake refugees into disposable migrant labor, Robson elucidates global humanitarianism's deep-seated... -
The Light of Truth by Ida B. Wells
RRP: £9.99£7.11In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic... -
Your Right to Know: A Citizen's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act by Heather Brooke
RRP: £22.99£15.17Have you ever wanted to know: - Which doctor has the best operation success rate in your health trust? - If MI5 has a file on you? - The actual number and type of crimes that happen in your street? - Which streets are targeted by parking attendants... -
Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and Out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexander
RRP: £20.00£12.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770436919Author Jessica AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft 9781914317811
RRP: £14.99£9.80A seminal book in a feminist conversation that still continues today.Now regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, Mary Wollstonecraft's writings have inspired conversation and action since their first publication. Wollstonecraft produced... -
Classical Black Nationalism: From the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey by Wilson Jeremiah Moses 9780814755334
RRP: £27.99£23.66Examines the evolution of black nationalist thought from its earliest proto-nationalistic phase in the 1700s to the Garvey movement in the 1920s Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modern black nationalist leaders such as Stokely... -
Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural by M.I. Franklin
RRP: £26.49£22.39Music sampling has become a predominantly digitalized practice. It was popularized with the rise of Rap and Hip-Hop, as well as ambient music scenes, but it has a history stretching back to the earliest days of sound recording and experimental music... -
Achieving Human Rights by Richard A. Falk 9780415990165
RRP: £39.99£35.06Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance, to the costs... -
Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism by Robert Zubrin
RRP: £13.99£9.26There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for--indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this... -
Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England by David Colclough
RRP: £30.99£28.28This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of... -
The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution by Robert D. Bullard 9781578051205
RRP: £16.99£13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578051205Author Robert D. BullardFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Sierra Club BooksPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 567g -
Why White Liberals Fail: Race and Southern Politics from FDR to Trump by Anthony J. Badger
RRP: £23.95£19.14It's not the economy, stupid: How liberal politicians' faith in the healing powers of economic growth-and refusal to address racial divisions-fueled reactionary politics across the South.From FDR to Clinton, charismatic Democratic leaders have promised a... -
The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope by Bernard-Henri Levy
£19.44An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world's most daring philosopher-reporters"Call[s] on people not just to see the world, but to be moved and interested by what they find there, and to do... -
Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice by Gareth Peirce 9781844677597
RRP: £13.99£9.09In this set of devastating essays, Gareth Peirce analyzes the corruption of legal principles and practices in both the US and the UK that has accompanied the 'War on Terror'. Exploring the few cases of torture that have come to light, such as those of... -
The Dead Eye And The Deep Blue Sea: The World of Slavery at Sea - A Graphic Memoir by Prum Vannak
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806026Author Prum VannakFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Lie of 1652: A decolonised history of land by Patric Tariq Mellet 9780624092124
RRP: £15.54£12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624092124Author Patric Tariq MelletFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps by Ben Shapiro 9780063001886
RRP: £12.99£8.48A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build-and they'll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture. Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America... -
Local Peacebuilding and Legitimacy: Interactions between National and Local Levels by Landon E. Hancock
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume searches for pragmatic answers to the problems that continue to beset peacebuilding efforts at all levels of society, with a singular focus on the role of legitimacy.Many peacebuilding efforts are hampered by their inability to gain the... -
The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis: Persecution, Deportation, and Murder, 1933-1945 by Michel Reynaud 9780815410768
RRP: £19.99£15.09The Jehovah's Witnesses endured intense persecution under the Nazi regime, from 1933 to 1945. Unlike the Jews and others persecuted and killed by virtue of their birth, Jehovah's Witnesses had the opportunity to escape persecution and personal harm by... -
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States by Eric D. Weitz
RRP: £30.00£23.82A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to othersOnce dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming... -
The Justice Laboratory: International Criminal Justice in Africa by Kerstin Bree Carlson 9780815738138
£31.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738138Author Kerstin Bree CarlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention by David Chandler 9780745325040
£28.38This new and updated edition of David Chandler's acclaimed book takes a critical look at the way in which human rights issues have been brought to the fore in international affairs. The UN and Nato's new policy of interventionism--as shown in Iraq,... -
The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change by Michelle Mijung Kim
RRP: £22.00£14.56As we become more aware of various social injustices in the world, many of us want to be part of the movement toward positive change. But sometimes our best intentions cause unintended harm, and we fumble. We might feel afraid to say the wrong thing and... -
Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International by Stephen Hopgood
RRP: £27.99£23.66"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truth-bearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the... -
Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps by Julie Peteet 9780812220704
RRP: £25.99£24.37Nearly half of the world's eight million Palestinians are registered refugees, having faced partition and exile. Landscape of Hope and Despair examines this refugee experience in Lebanon through the medium of spatial practices and identity, set against... -
World Report 2022: Events of 2021 by Human Rights Watch
RRP: £29.99£19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644211212Author Human Rights WatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace by Noam Chomsky 9780745335452
RRP: £16.99£11.54For decades, Noam Chomsky has been considered one of the most important critics of American's foreign policy in Central and Latin America and yet Turning the Tide is one of his only written works which makes that region its sole focus. At last back... -
Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror by Helen Epstein
RRP: £10.99£10.04Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors?In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naive dealings... -
Champions of Equality: Trade unions and LGBT rights in Britain by Peter Purton 9781912064588
RRP: £20.00£18.81There is a big hole in the history of the LGBT movement in Britain. Each step towards equality for LGBT people, every positive move in public opinion, was the result of campaigning. But while individuals and lobby groups loudly promote their role in the... -
Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon 9780674025554
RRP: £27.95£21.70More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide;... -
How Corrupt is Britain? by David Whyte
£25.45Banks accused of rate-fixing. Members of Parliament cooking the books. Major defence contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accused of being paid off by tabloids. The headlines are unrelenting these days. Perhaps it's high time we ask:... -
Guantanamo Diary: Restored Edition by Larry Siems
RRP: £18.99£13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316517881Author Mohamedou Ould SlahiFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption by Penny Green
RRP: £29.99£23.02What is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors provide a clear chapter-by-chapter assessment of state violence, corruption, state involvement in organised and corporate crime,... -
Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: v. 1: Meaning of Genocide by Mark Levene
£28.52How should we understand genocide in the modern world? As an aberration from the norms of a dominant liberal international society? Or rather as a guide to the very dysfunctional nature of the international system itself? "The Meaning of... -
Liberty before Liberalism by Quentin Skinner
RRP: £15.99£13.33This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful... -
The Right to Have Rights by Stephanie Degooyer
RRP: £12.99£8.48Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and... -
A Hope More Powerful than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
RRP: £10.99£7.40Soon to be a major film produced by Steven Spielberg and J. J. Abrams.This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred people crammed on to a fishing boat setting sail for Europe. The boat was... -
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times by Jack Snyder
RRP: £28.00£21.76An innovative framework for advancing human rights Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human Rights for Pragmatists explains why: activists...